Finals of Sci-Tech quiz held at Quiz Week, IIT Kharagpur

1. Sci Techuila
Sourav Kundu
Abhimanyu Bharade

2. Rules :
● Because QMs were too lazy to make written rounds :
● Pounce and Bounce Qs. 1 – 17 Clockwise, Q 17 - 34 Anticlockwise
● +10/0 on Bounce
● +15/-5 on Pounce.
● QMs are the creator and destroyer of the universes.

3. 1. Gimme X? #Know_your_QMs
CamSoda an entertainment company announced a new device called the Z. which
will be a WiFi connected button like Amazon's Dash Button that can fit on a X and
will automatically order a large Domino's cheese pizza whenever it's pressed.
"Y, while ultimately enjoyable, can be a strenuous physical activity during which an
individual exerts a lot of energy and burns many calories. Inevitably, once finished,
they feel lethargic and hungry," CamSoda's vice president, Daryn Parker, said in a
press release. "Now, in order to enjoy your Saturday night, all you need is your Z.
Get off and get stuffed, all with the quick click of a button."

5. X: Vibrator
Z: RubGrub

6. 2. Orange clouds
This gadget from Parse error makes cloud and creates thunderstorms in a lamp
which are synced to a certain activity/event in real time. Which event.
Hint: This activity is usually regularly( unnecessarily) done by a certain person.
What Activity?
*Useless Image follows

9. Trump’s Tweet

10. 3. Connect
"Dancing Queen" "Rumour Has It"
"Cecilia" "Sorry"
"Hard To Handle" "Rock This Town"
"Sweet Home Alabama" "Fly"
"Rock Your Body" "Hips Don’t Lie"
"I Will Survive" "Work It"
"MMMBop" "Stayin’ Alive”
"Gives You Hell" "Suddenly I See"
"History of Rap" "Crazy"
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" "Spirit In the Sky"
"Crazy in Love" "Man in the Mirror"
"Just Dance" "One Week"
"Something Just Like This" "Another Brick in the Wall"

12. CPR Songs

13. 4.
Conceptual artist Aram Bartholl has created an art installation consisting of eight
books with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Visitors to the exhibit are invited
to open to books and check if their entries are present. There are around 4.7
million entries sourced from a single source.
The exhibit is provocatively titled, “Forgot your _?”. What do the books consist of?

16. Password

17. 5. Fruity
One of the most famous studies was conducted by four French scientists --
Guillaume Dupeux, Anne Le Goff, David Quere and Christophe Clanet -- and
published in the New Journal of Physics in September 2010. In this study, the
physicists conducted a series of experiments and analyses, which result in an
equation that explains the ball's trajectory and all the forces that were in action at
that precise moment.
They concluded that the amount of power and the longer distance(35 yards) was
crucial for that miraculous event taking place around 13 years before. What?

19. Robert Carlos free kick

20. 6.
In computer networking, HTTP X Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error status
code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests a resource
which cannot be served for legal reasons, such as a web page censored by a
government. The status code was formally proposed in 2013 by Tim Bray, and was
published as RFC 7725 in February 2016.
The number X is a reference to Y, where the books are outlawed.

22. 451, Fahrenheit 451

23. 7. All hail
It was meant to be lit by a battery of floodlights triggered remotely by shortwave
radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, stationed 5,700 miles (9,200 km) away in Rome.
However due to poor weather affecting the radio waves,it was finally lit on the spot,
on October 12, 1931
Today it stands as one of the most wonderful structure, and regularly illuminated as
per the occasions and events around the world, such as Christmas,FIFA WC etc.
What are we talking about.

25. Christ the Redeemer

26. The _ _ _ Research Institute (X) is a nonprofit press monitoring and analysis
organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. X publishes and distributes free
English language translations of several foreign language media reports.
X states that its goal is to "bridge the language gap between the East and the
West.“ It has been praised as an "invaluable" resource and for helping to "shine a
spotlight on hate speech wherever it appears”.
Based in Washington, D.C. with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Rome,
Shanghai, Baghdad, and Tokyo, X was founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon and
Meyrav Wurmser.
Yigal is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-
born American political scientist.
8. Meme Alert

28. MEMRI TV

29. 9. Id the location.
The Przewalski's horse nearly went extinct, but in an effort to save the species it
was introduced into an area near the Pripyat River in 1998 and to other reserves
worldwide. Without humans living in the area, the horse population has been
increasing. Also, several other mammals have been spotted recently and the flora
and fauna are expanding since.
Some experts have been saying that the old said effects of X aren’t as harmful as
they are deemed. Others say that it’s just the effect of lesser human interruptions.
Image follows.

32. Chernobyl (1986)

33. 10. Garmi + Paisa
French startup Qarnot unveiled a new heater called QC1 , the most interesting
feature being that it earns you money, while heating.
Give funda, how does it do that?

35. It’s a cryptocurrency miner

36. 11. What do they do?
Polonium-210 emits a type of radiation called alpha-radiation, which is very
energetic and can seriously damage DNA. Thankfully, what alpha-radiation has in
destructive ability, it lacks in penetrating power. Human skin is usually enough to
stop it, but that’s of little consolation to people who inhale particles of polonium-
210.
A certain class of people are regularly are thus exposed to polonium & lead
radiation poisoning. The activity though has several other health warnings
attached to it, people still are doing it.

38. Smoking Kills

39. 12. Too much of Brain.
Marilyn vos Savant is an American public figure, best known for having the highest
recorded IQ according to the Guinness Book of Records, and the writer of the
famous column “Ask Marilyn”. She is married to Robert Jarvik, the inventor of first
artificial X, named Jarvik X on August 23, 1987, and was made Chief Financial
Officer of Jarvik X, Inc.
X ?
Hint : It connects them.

42. Heart

43. 13. Jackie of all trades
The author of the following scientific paper is known to us in a very different field.
She has published two scientific papers, while doing B.A. in psychology at Harvard.
How do we know her better?
Also, people like her usually have relation to several domain. A indexing number
called X has been coined thus, indicating the collaboration with a 3 savants in their
field. This number indicates how closely you have worked with them. Lower the
value, the more closely you have worked with them.
So, this author has an X no. of 11. Carl Sagan a 9, Feynman a 10.

47. Natalie Portman, Erdos Bacon Sabbath Number.

48. 14. The Wall
In September 2017, Israel went public with a sensor-equipped wall being planted
on its side of the 37 mile- (60 km) long border, a counter-measure developed after
Hamas fighters blindsided the Israeli troops during the war using certain secret
passages.
The wall is however very different from what Trump plans to make, but with the
same purpose : to keep the intruders out.
How is it different ? How does it keep the Hamas fighters away?

50. Underground Wall. Cuts out the tunnels.

51. 15. Seig Heil !!!
Back in 1990, American attorney and author Mike Godwin developed what he
called “Godwin’s Law of X Analogies,” which stated: “As an online discussion
grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving X’s or Y approaches one.”
In other words, the longer a comment thread, the more likely someone will invoke Y
as a means of winning an argument.
While there may be a certain truth to the law, Godwin has claimed that he never
intended his adage to be considered absolute law. Rather, he conducted an
experiment in “memetics”—the study of memes—to see if he could produce what
he termed a “counter-meme.” Godwin saw the ridiculous overuse of glib X
comparisons as an undesirable meme in usenet forums, so he created and pushed
forward the adage to create an awareness of it, and potentially, to try to curtail it.

53. Nazi/ Hitler

54. 16. What is happening over here?

56. Click Farms

57. 17.
Vietnamese cybersecurity firm Bkav, has claimed to bypass X’s new feature Y,
using a special mask. The mask is made to trick Y's depth mapping and the result
is a kind of creepy hybrid monster head with realistic cutouts for the eyes, nose and
mouth. Bkav says the mask is crafted through a combination of 3D printing,
makeup, and 2D images. There's also some "special processing done on the
cheeks and around the face" where there are large areas of skin, and the nose is
created from silicone. Also, the mask costs 150$ and was released just a week after
the release of Y on November 5th,dismissing the claims by X that it cannot be
broken into by photos or masks.

60. Apple, Face ID

61. Anticlockwise Round begins

62. 18.
This video creates the images by using a special feature Y of Google, which uses a
convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic
pareidolia, thus creating a hallucinogenic appearance in the deliberately over-
processed images, which looks like that the viewer is Xing.
The cited resemblance of the imagery to LSD- and psilocybin-induced
hallucinations is suggestive of a functional resemblance between artificial neural
networks and particular layers of the visual cortex.

65. Deep Dreaming

66. 19 .Navigate
This small triangle marks are above a specific seat called “ William Shatner Seat”.
This seat usually provides the best view, earning you the tremendous likes on
Instagram.
However, they are due to a more important reason, than to just have a specific
person to click the best photos. Why?

69. Visual check for problems on the wings
This is the place inside the airplane from which you can get the best visual check
for ice or other problems on the wings of the aeroplane.

70. 20 .What is being analysed over here?
This painting received several critiques for different reasons: the theme, the
perspective (considered to be imperfect, because if the girl is supposed to be
talking to someone in front of her and the reflection of the man shouldn’t appear
on the right of the painting, but to the centre). In 2000 a photograph was taken at
the X trying to reproduce the painting. The photograph allowed the discovery of
the point of view that had been used to create this scene: he broke up with the
traditional way of watching paintings, when the viewer takes a central position to
observe the work of art. He represented the scene from a left point of view and this
explains that the reflection of the man who is speaking with the girl appears on the
left and not to the center of the painting.

73. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Manet)

74. 21.
What two word term has been blanked out, used to simplify real-world logic
requirements so that they can be implemented using a minimum number of
physical logic gates?

77. Karnaugh Maps

78. 22.
This was a program which maintained databases of Anonymous FTP host
directories. The author originally wanted to call the program "archives" but had to
shorten it to comply with the Unix standard of assigning short, cryptic names.
Therefore he renamed it by dropping letters, which caused the subsequent name
being thought of as a tribute to a fictional character, which in turn influenced the
naming of similar programs.
What first does this program hold? What did the author end up calling it as?

80. Archie
The program ended up being called Archie. It is considered the world’s first
search engine.
The other early search engines were named after Archie characters like Jughead
and Veronica.

81. 23.
X (born October 17, 1984) is a former NASA roboticist as well as a programmer,
best known as the creator of Y. X and Y both have developed a cult following. X is
also the creator of the websites "Best Thing", "The Funniest", "The Cutest", and
"The Fairest", each of which presents the user with two options and asks them to
choose one over the other. He has also started a project called "What if?" where
users post questions to the website which are usually absurd and physics/math
related, and he answers them using his own knowledge as well as various sources
from the web (often these involve calculation web-applications).

83. Randal Munroe : xkcd

84. 25. Easy on the eyes.
● Joseph Jacobson and Barrett Comiskey are listed as inventors on the original
patent filed in 1996. It is currently available commercially in grayscale and
colour
● To a lesser extent, it is used in mobile phones and watches.

86. E-Ink

87. 26.
● Playtex was a brand associated with bras and women's undergarments
● ILC Dover was a branch of the International Latex Corporation, which went on
to become Playtex
● In 1965, based on its unique approach to designing flexible joints, ILC won a
contract for what?

89. Designing the Apollo Lunar Space suit

90. 27. What?
● It was granted the United State Patent No. 6,390,979.
● It works based on the pattern of blood-flow-velocity change in the brain
depending if it elicits bi-hemispheric activation, or activates unilateral
response.

92. Lie detector

93. 28.
James Watt formed a partnership with Matthew Boulton to capitalize on the
improved steam process Watt had designed. The major use of steam engines was
for the pumping of water, water from the mines around Cornwall, or to refill mill-
ponds in dry summers, or to remove water from fields and canals.
However, the intended audience already had other means to do the same.
Watt came up with something else to overcome the same. What did James Watt
come up with?

95. The unit Horsepower

96. 29. Iron
Julian Voss Andreae, a German sculptor living in the US, derives most of his
inspiration from his background in science.
The sculpture shown, created from glass and weathering steel, was allowed to
rust gradually as a representation of the changes that the structure it represents,
undergoes. Its appearance, on installation, 10 days later and months later are
depicted on the next slide.
What is the sculpture supposed to depict?

99. Haemoglobin

100. 30.
As an adult, Joseph Meister served as a caretaker at this institute until his death in
1940 at age 64. In June 24, 1940, ten days after the German army invaded Paris
during World War II, Meister committed suicide with his gas furnace.
Although often repeated, the version stating he chose to commit suicide rather
than allow the Wehrmacht to enter the institute’s crypt is not widely accepted.
Instead, a contemporary journal article indicate that he was overwhelmed by the
guilt of having sent his family away, thinking it had resulted in their deaths.
Where was Joseph Meister working/Whose crypt was he guarding? And why did it
hold much significance for him?

102. Louis Pasteur. First person To receive the rabies
vaccine

103. 31. What are we talking about?
Rene Laennec, in 1816, to overcome a common problem of the age, came up with
the device on the right, which was given out free, with his book which taught
people the technique of auscultation.

106. Stethoscope

107. 32.
The ingredients include water (~80%), butane gas (~17%), surfactant (~1%), and
other ingredients including vegetable oil (~2%). The liquefied butane expands
when the product is ejected. The butane evaporates instantly, forming bubbles of
gas in the water/surfactant mixture. The surfactant(s) cause the bubbles to have
stability and hence a gas-in-liquid colloid forms.
The bubbles eventually collapse and the colloid disappears, leaving only water
and surfactant residue.
The working of which invention, invented in 2000, is being described here?

109. Vanishing spray used in football matches

110. 33.
The story behind the origins of this entity, in the form we are most familiar with, is
that apparently its creator X, was fond of playing solitaire on long train journeys.
This inspired him to create the particular form of the entity that we more or less
use even today. What am I talking about?

112. Periodic Table